Community weekly poll: What do you mostly use your cell phone for?
- 5/23/06 2:02 PM
Perfectly Correct
by mikeskara0 - 5/23/06 8:18 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by spoole1I agree with everything you said. It is a lousy music resource; I use the radio feature on it only when I am moving from room to room late at night.
I love my phone, BUT. .
by xtensionofme - 5/23/06 7:37 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
Why does no one work on making a standard battery that lasts more than 3-4 days (standby)?? I resent that the phone manufacturers force us to purchase expensive extended-life batteries, rather than offer them as standard equipment. I hate having to recharge my phone so often! Other than that, I have no other complaints.
Phone and Alarm
by sawcat - 5/23/06 7:42 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I use mine as my business phone, and I use the alarm to wake up by. That is it.
I hate that the carriers and manufacturers practically force all the bells and wistles on you. Twenty different camera phones, but 1 or 2 basic ones at best. I already have two digital cameras that take the 5 year old 2 megapixel one takes 10 times better pics than the pics friends have posted online...friends with the high end ones. So why would I need a camera phone. They should make better quality ones that are durable, better sound quality and better battery life.
when I want the bells and wistles, I'll tote around my laptop
make and receive calls
by harley-d - 5/23/06 7:49 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I do have all the extra's on my cell, but I use mine to make and receive phone calls. Nice and simple, the way it was meant to be.
Other uses
by sharee100 - 5/23/06 8:43 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I use my cell phone to read books (eReader & Mobipocket), watch movies (Windows Media Player, Pocket TV & Beta Player), transport shopping lists (I can convert EXCEL and WORD to a mobile format), play some games, and I use OUTLOOK. So, my cell phone is essentially a mini laptop. I do some text messaging. I have a mobile phone keyboard for heavy typing. It doesn't have a camera. I have a digital camera for that. I do love that it has memory cards. 1Gb will hold a 2 hour movie, a book, lots of music. It's great for those "waiting" times.
I can make calls?
by aka_tripleB - 5/23/06 8:48 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I do make some calls with my phone, but I don't really call many people, so my phone is basically an alarm clock/reminder device. But I do like the EZ tip calc for the times I do go out to eat.
Recording laughter
by spicetrader - 5/23/06 8:55 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
When his aunt let out an immense scream of laughter at a party, my nephew recorded the sound on his cellphone. He's played it back to us 2 or 3 times a year for the last 3 years.
What cell phone?
by johnwtucson - 5/23/06 9:02 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
What cell phone? I don't have anything to say to anybody that's that important.
You didn't list my option!
by Doylie189 - 5/23/06 9:11 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I use my cellphone for *NOTHING*-- because I don't own one. I despise them, and won't have one in my house. I regard them as one of the three worst inventions in all of human history, after the "focus group" and before the "Diebold Voting Machine."
Huh?
by jla10021 - 5/25/06 5:10 PM In reply to: You didn't list my option! by Doylie189Why? If they weren't useful people wouldn't bother with them. I have several elderly relatives who get really sniffy about mobile phones and I tend to think they're just technophobes. Imagine saying "I utterly despise hammers. I'd never use one." So carry on using the heel of your shoe, but the right tool in the right situation is not something to be sniffed at! Why should something be despised just because there is an electronic circuit board inside it? If it's useful, use one! It isn't immoral as far as I can see.
If the annoyance is seeing other people using them, what's the problem there? If the person they're communicating with were there in person you'd hear both halves of their conversation - if people talking to one another is so annoying you should be really pleased only to have to endure one half of the dialogue!
OK, I'll admit I was once annoyed by someone who got a mobile out in a doctor's waiting room and started pacing up and down the middle of the room, yelling into his phone, but I can honestly say that's the only time I've been annoyed by someone's mobile. That sort of thing doesn't happen often, does it?
It's just a phone
by corgonin - 5/23/06 10:31 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I got my newest phone (Motorola v220) on a promotion only because I had finally broken my old phone. I thought the camera feature would be neat, but the quality of the photos is so poor I rarely use it. Then a friend showed me how much better the quality of the photos from his Raz'r phone are, which made me give up the on the photo feature altogether, except for the wallpaper and screensaver, which are, of course, pictures of my dog!
I also HATE the internet capability! Several times I have accidentally hit the wrong menu button and found the screen transmitting "data", which of course then shows up on my bill! I may be old-fashioned, but if I want to go online, I'd rather use my laptop than my phone!
Anne
Cell Phone Slideshow
by Bryn A Roberts - 5/23/06 10:46 PM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I love being able to take out my cell phone and show pictures of my grandson anytime anyone even remotely looks like they are interested. I have uploaded a number of pictures to my RAZR and use the slideshow any time I get a chance.
Text messaging and alarm
by jburd964 - 5/24/06 12:04 AM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
the alarm rocks on cell fones...they vibrate and u can put a cool tune....but the best thing ever abt a cell fone is TEXTING!! i often wish i cud have a cell fone thts text messaging only....i wudnt need to ever call people....just send txt msgs! i lov email and txt msgs are email on the go!
This must be an US-angled poll
by myskja - 5/24/06 1:18 AM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
Just 18% for text messaging...? That's odd, because f.ex. in many countries in Europe text messaging is more popular than actual phone calls.
Are the manufacturers checking this poll
by ringrhymer - 5/24/06 3:19 AM In reply to: What do you mostly use your cell phone for? by Marc Bennett
I certainly hope so. It would be nice to have a phone that really works good as a phone. But, I suspect that the manufacturers are catering to the carriers and not the needs of the user.
The technology is there . . . why not use it?
As it stands now, cell phones really suck.
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